Many eyes will look at SpaceX today.
The CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, will provide an update on the vision of his business to make humanity a multiplanetary species, followed by the ninth starship test. Musk is expected to start his conference at 1:00 p.m. Hae (1,700 GMT) Tuesday, May 27, and Starship targets a launch window from 7:30 p.m. Hae (2330 GMT).
The two will be broadcast live on the Space.com home page And YouTube canal, as well as on spacex Flight 9 mission pageTHE @Spacex X account and x TV application. The broadcast for Talk about musk This afternoon is expected to start at 12:55 p.m. HAE (1655 GMT). The SpaceX flow for Starship Flight Test 9 will start at 6.50 p.m. Hae (2250 GMT).
The two events will take place at the installation of manufacturing and test of SpaceX, located in the most recent of Texas Official city, StarbaseLocated on the southernmost tip of the state.
Musk’s speech intervenes in the midst of increased criticism of the founder of SpaceX and his political involvement with President Trump Government Department of Effectiveness (DOGE). During a recent call with Tesla Investors – another company for which Musk is CEO – Musk is committed to retreating from his DOGE involvement to focus more on her businesses. The last time he gave a pre-star launch speech was April 2024.
Starship, too, suffers from a public image problem. The last two flight tests for the giant rocket ended with the explosion of the scene of the upper “ship” of the vehicle, slowing down the development of the rocket to operational status.
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Dishes Flight 7 And Flight 8In January and March, the two respectively successful Their super heavy first step boosters in Starbase, where they were captured in the air by the “mechazilla” wand arms of the launch tower. But the two flights also lost the upper stages of their spectacular ship explosions seen through Florida and the Bahamas.
Consecutive failures have hampered the development of starships and put a tighter clock on the expected operational start of the vehicle. NASA has contracted SpaceX to develop starship as Lunar Landder for the agency Artemis 3 mission of making astronauts on the surface of the moon. This mission should be launched in 2027. Before that, SpaceX must land at least one unrelated vessel on the moon, then successfully relaunch it on the lunar orbit. So far, Starship has not yet completed a complete orbit of the earth.
The iterative process of SpaceX thanks to the development of Starship praised the company for the speed at which the launch vehicle has matured, but also criticisms on optics that accompany a giant rocket separating into hundreds of fire balls that fall into the atmosphere.
Completely stacked, the ship and the heavy super booster stand around 400 feet (122 meters) in height. Combined, they constitute the world Largest and most powerful launch vehicle Never built and are designed to be completely reusable. Musk praised the vehicle as the response to the creation of multiplanetary human life, and said that SpaceX intended to start launching sports vessels in Mars from 2026.
Starship Flight 9 should last a little more than an hour and will try to successfully browse the path that his flight 8 predecessor did not succeed in March. The ship is launched with several objectives in space, including the deployment of eight silent Starlink satellites and a relaxation of one of the raptor engines of the ship. Satellite simulators should burn at the start of the school year.
It will be the first reuse of one of the super boosters in SpaceX. Flight 9 will be launched using the same first step which launched flight 7. Unlike previous launches, Super Heavy will not return to its Starbase launch site after the separation of the ship, and rather try a smooth landing in the waters of the Gulf south of Starbase, where it will be rejected.
